Lithuania will halt Russian oil transit to the Russian exclave of Kaliningrad due to recent sanctions imposed by the UK and the US against the two largest oil companies in the Russian Federation – Rosneft and Lukoil, IPN reports.

The decision to stop Russian oil transit to Kaliningrad was announced by Lithuanian Railways (LTG), which said it would comply with sanctions imposed by British and American authorities against Russian oil companies.

Last year, LTG transported over 370,000 tons of petroleum products to and from Russia, most of which were produced by Lukoil. Since the beginning of this year, over 190,000 tons of crude oil belonging to Lukoil have been transported. Rosneft oil has not been transported through Lithuanian territory this year or last year.

The sanctions imposed by the UK and the US are part of an effort to put pressure on Russia to stop the war in Ukraine.